Suspenders.



PATENTEDL IAN. 13, 190 W. H. JOHNSON & O. GORDON.

SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28, 1902. N0 MODEL.

NITED STAT S ATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, OF WINTHROP, AND CHARLES GORDON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,129, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed June 28, 1902. Serial No. 113,574. (No model.)

T0 ctZZ whom, it may concern..-

Be it known that we,WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, residing at Winthrop, and CHARLES GORDON, residing at Boston,in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Suspenders; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to an improvement in suspenders.

The object of our invention is to reorganize and improve suspenders in various details hereinafter to be pointed out; and the pres ent invention consists in the suspenders described, and hereinafter particularly defined in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred form of our invention, Figure 1 is a rear view of a pair of suspenders, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of such suspenders.

In the illustrated embodiment of our invention the shoulder-straps 1 pass down over the back of the wearer through strap-embracing members 2 and thence to the rear buttons of the trousers. The strap-embracing members consist of pieces of metal provided with holes3 and 4 for the straps to. pass through. The shou1der-strap passes down through the hole 3, underneath the body of the strap-embracing member 2, and thence out through the hole 4 and down to the button. The end embracing members 2 are connected by means of a uniting-bar 5, pivotally attached at its ends to said strap-embracing members. The baris of such a length as to separate the strapembracing members from contact with each other and at the same time to permit each shoulder-strap to rise and fall independently of the other, so as to compensate for relative movement of the shoulders. The strap-en1- bracing members 2 are movable or adjustable upon the shoulder-straps, so that the sus ponders may be made to fit the wearer. In the case of a round or sloping shouldered wearer the strap-embracing members would be raised upon the shoulder-straps, so as to bers up and down on the shoulder-straps for reasons which are apparent to those skilled in this art.

The strap-embracing members will be fixed in their adjusted positions by the friction between the straps and the embracing members caused by the deflection of the straps in passing through the openings. The greater the tension on the straps the more firmly they will be held in place.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- A pair of suspenders, having, in combination, two shoulder-straps, two strap-embracing members mounted on the straps, respectively, near their rear ends, said members being adjustable along said straps to vary the distance from the rear ends of the straps substantiallyas and for the purpose described and constructed to be fixed thereto in adjusted position, and a uniting-bar pivotally attached at its ends to the strap-embracing members, respectively, said bar being of such length as to separate the strap embracing members from contact with each other and to permit each shoulder-strap to rise and fall independently of the other so as to compensate for relative movement of the shoulders, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM H. JOHNSON. CHARLES GORDON. Witnesses to signature of W. H. Johnson: HORACE VAN EVEREN, CHARLES S. Pansoorr. Witnesses to signature of Charles Gordon:

HORACE G. Lone, Fonnvon B. ARVINE. 

